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Italian Government's Thanks. Services By the Torbay and Hope Cove Life-Boats

Date: February 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 289

ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...

Category: Services

The Lowestoft Life-Boat. By Commander Basil Hall, R.N.

Date: August 1917

Volume: 23

Issue: 263

LOWESTOFT, the most easterly point of these Islands, and consequently the nearest to the coast of our enemy, has had since the outbreak of the War more services to its credit than any other Life-boat Station in the United Kingdom, the boat...

Category: Services

The Heavy Gales of May and June Last

Date: October 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 38

Also II. to some men for rescuing 2 men from a boat which was capsized by a heavy sea, on the 8th May last, off Gweedore Bar, on the coast of Donegal.

Also Silver Medal of the Institution and U to Gunner CHARLES LEESE, and...

Category: Articles

On the Road

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Mobile Training Unit No. 7 (MTU 7) is one of eight RNLI mobile training units which are dedicated to providing training for lifeboat crews at their own stations. The units vary in size from a small van (MTU 8) to large mobile classroom units...

Category: Articles

A Tender

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Capsized tender ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday December 22, 1981, Derek Scott, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, was at his home overlooking the seafront when, at 1555, he heard cries for help. Scanning thebay with his binoculars he saw two men...

Note In Background Crane Which Will Capsize the Rather for Her Righting Trial and on Her Stem Dial to Indicate Angle of Heel When Engine Shut-Down Switch Operates

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

Note in background crane which will capsize the Rather for her righting trial and, on her stem, dial to indicate angle of heel when engine shut-down switch operates.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Life-Boat House

Date: May 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 220

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Category: Articles

On Station: Delivery and Naming of Blyth Lifeboat Rnlb Shoreline By Peter Holness Membership Secretary

Date: Autumn 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 470

SHORELINE HAS NOW COMPLETED one of the most exciting periods in its history, for late last summer the first lifeboat to be funded by Shoreline members made her delivery trip to her station, Blyth, on the north-east coast of England, and on...

Category: Inaugurations

The Centenary: In Scotland

Date: December 1924

Volume: 25

Issue: 282

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Aberdeen held a Centenary Meeting on 23rd January, at which Lord Provost Meff presided, and the Marquess of Aber- deen and Temair, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution,...

Category: Articles

In Fog Off Chesil Beach

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...

Category: Services